operates in a number of them and earns there only around £30 million. Despite the concerns, many still believe Witty’s pledge marks a major step forward for neglected diseases and developing countries. “He is breaking the mould in validating the concept of patent pools,” said Rohit Malpani at Oxfam’s access to medicines campaign. “It is a big step forward. It is welcome that he is inviting othe...

In the era of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the public and private sectors are increasingly committed to the growth of transport-oriented infrastructure, including ports, highways, bridges, and rail facilities. In particular there has been much interest in international bridges spanning the Rio Grande, the roads and rail lines leading to these bridges, and the port facilities...

RECENTLY there fell into my hands by the kindness of its author a book which has revealed to me a new, and I think much better, understanding of the situation we are facing today in consequence of the modern scientific revolution. The author’s name is Josef Pieper, professor of philosophical anthropology at the University of Münster, and his book which so impressed me is entitled Scizolastik. (...

Michael Young was born in Miami, Florida. As an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin, he joined Burke Judd’s group for a summer of research. This was his introduction to Drosophila and genetics, and it stretched into a doctorate. His postdoctoral work was in the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford School of Medicine where he began to study transposable elements. He was appo...

The author presents a framework that considers public health and social issue behaviors and is based on self-interest, exchange, competition, free choice, and externalities. Targets that are prone, resistant, or unable to respond to the manager's goal behave on the basis of their motivation, opportunity, and ability and on a manager's use of the strategies and tactics inherent in education, mar...

Looking back over my career, I ... am hopeful, based on the progress achieved so far, that molecular sieve films will become a widespread energy-efficient separation technology. I am waiting for the day when someone will discover ... the “aeik nhton” (perpetual motion machine). The biggest challenge facing scientists is ... to ensure the peaceful use of their discoveries. My first experiment wa...

beating against the vessel walls. Lancisi includes dilatation and hypertrophy of the heart in his work, and here some of his comments have the same sophistication that one might expect of a modern pathologist describing the detailed post-mortem findings of a case of heart failure. The history of medicine is a complex discipline, but one of its most fascinating aspects is discovering for oneself...

molecular structure, isomerism, conformational stability and intramolecular hydrogen bonding (ihb) of cis-enol forms of 1-(n-pyridyl)butane-1,3-diones (npbd) (n = 2, 3, or 4) have been investigated by means of density functional theory (dft) calculations. energy differences for all possible npbd cis-enol forms of isomers with respect to the most stable form of the corresponding isomer have been...

ni6(n2h4)6(so4)4(oh)2(h2o)8](so4)(h2o)10 complex was prepared according to literature report. the reaction between aforementioned complex via sodium alkoxides as a reactants, were carried out in the solid state. the [ni6(n2h4)6(so4)4(oh)2(h2o)8](so4)(h2o)10 undergoes an intramolecular two electrons oxidation-reduction reaction at room temperature and metallic nickel nanoparticles (ni1-ni5) was ...

ni6(n2h4)6(so4)4(oh)2(h2o)8](so4)(h2o)10 complex was prepared according to literature report. the reaction between aforementioned complex via sodium alkoxides as a reactants, were carried out in the solid state. the [ni6(n2h4)6(so4)4(oh)2(h2o)8](so4)(h2o)10 undergoes an intramolecular two electrons oxidation-reduction reaction at room temperature and metallic nickel nanoparticles (ni1-ni5) was ...